Working class mother Carrie Angel is raising her two teenage sons in Section 8 housing while she finishes her carpentry certification. It's not the ideal place to raise the boys but it is all she can afford since her divorce. Divorce also forces upscale Jen Manners and her resentful daughter Emily from their comfortable, suburban lifestyle into subsidized housing. Jen's decade old Lit-degree and lack of work history send her into a system she thought reserved for a different class of woman than herself. And so Carrie and Jen meet. Two women with nothing in common in their lives but their financial situations and Section 8 Housing. Together they begin to believe that yes, life is what you make it.